Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Joan W. Nowicke

Dr. Joan W. Nowicke, Curator, Department of Botany, was an internationally recognized palynologist specializing in pollen morphology at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, 1972–99. Nowicke earned special recognition in the 1980s for her work studying “Yellow Rain,” which some governments alleged was a form of chemical biological warfare. #Groundbreaker
November 13, 2019, by Emily Niekrasz

A woman wearing a lab coat studies a paper with a dried plant attached. Test tubes are on the desk i

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